1 posted on
07/13/2009 9:27:43 AM PDT by
Tolik
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2 posted on
07/13/2009 9:28:25 AM PDT by
Tolik
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3 posted on
07/13/2009 9:29:06 AM PDT by
Tolik
To: Tolik
...and the resulting anti-government backlash will make those Michigan Militia confabs from the 90’s look like a PTA meeting
To: Tolik
Powerful stuff. Here we have a combination that a historian such as Hanson might find all too familiar: a ruling class with an unproductive and hungry mob of supporters that finds a rich field for rapine by attacking the middle class from both sides. You get what you reward: if you punish achievement and reward strident and unjustified demand, you will end up with no achievement and all demand. "From each according to his ability to each according to his need" is certain to generate a bumper crop of need.
The underlying - and false - premises are that achievement is oppression, profit greed, property theft. All of that works much better in fictional socialist manifestos than in practical application, but it does sound good, and it feels good to tell oneself that the theft is justified because the victim is evil.
To: Tolik
Hanson basically lays out the Cloward-Piven strategy here. I imagine he knows the name, but seems reluctant to use the term. Maybe “Cloward-Piven” is just something that the tinfoil hat brigade believes in and VDH doesn’t want to be associated with it. But, clearly, he’s watching Cloward-Piven unfold. No tinfoil required.
7 posted on
07/13/2009 9:55:05 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(I don't believe anything anyone says about anything anymore.)
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To: Tolik
I have a good idea. Instead of taxing earnings, capital gains and interest how about we tax accumulated wealth. Surely the likes of Soros, Buffett, Gore, Feinstein, Kennedy, et al don’t need all of those homes, boats, retreats and jets. That way the working stiff making 200K before taxes can pay for their kids’college tuition, home and vacation,
To: Tolik
To: Tolik; sickoflibs; TigerLikesRooster
...we are witnessing an inversion of Reagan’s sort of playing chicken, once called “starve the beast” ...cutting taxes to cut revenue to starve the federal government’s excessive spending ... Under Obama’s “gorge the beast” version, America will simply write so many bounced checks, run up such an enormous $10 trillion debt, that taxes will have to rise on “them”– and wasn’t this really the point of it all anyway... Where are all the hard luck stories about how bad the economy is? If we had had this mess under President Bush, reporters would be camped out in homeless shelters...
13 posted on
07/13/2009 10:51:50 AM PDT by
GOPJ
(Still waiting for journalists to ask Obama how he'll heal a deeply divided nation-FreeperOldDeckHand)
To: Tolik
Note to self:
Read “Atlas Shrugged” for the 8th time......
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16 posted on
07/13/2009 11:14:55 AM PDT by
GOPJ
(Still waiting for journalists to ask Obama how he'll heal a deeply divided nation-FreeperOldDeckHand)
To: Tolik
the comments on that link are also very good, everyone should read them...
18 posted on
07/13/2009 11:43:29 AM PDT by
RobFromGa
(The FairTax is to tax policy as Global Warming is to science.)
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21 posted on
07/13/2009 12:18:23 PM PDT by
GeronL
( Patriotic Insurrectionist at http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: Tolik
Victor Davis Hanson Perfection BUMP!!!!!
He shoots he scores!
all net swooosh!
He hits it out of the park!
Touchdown!
or for those in Rio Linda,,,,Gooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!!!!!!!
27 posted on
07/13/2009 2:40:31 PM PDT by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Tolik; MountainWoman; kstewskis
bttt, such an outstanding article
To: Tolik
Excellent article. I have added victor Hansen’s page to my favorites!
29 posted on
07/13/2009 4:17:15 PM PDT by
meyer
( "The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for. But not without Freedom.")
To: Tolik
John Galt’s gonna have a lot of company in that gulch.
31 posted on
07/13/2009 6:43:31 PM PDT by
TADSLOS
(Sarah Palin: Sun Tzu of Politics)
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34 posted on
07/13/2009 7:33:07 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Tolik
The only mystery will be how long will the base of Obama's support stay loyal among high-paid stockbrokers, CEOs, lawyers, financiers, academics, and journalists, who have enough money to get hit hard by new taxes, but not quite enough money not to care. They will "care" when they are the next victims of the Obama Abomination. When they are turned upon and demonized. When they are no longer "safe" because of their "connections." When their wealth is confiscated "for the good of the people." When their turn comes, there will be no one left to "empathize" or "sympathize." Welcome to Galt's Gulch...............
36 posted on
07/14/2009 5:09:49 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Inquiring minds want to know, but American Idol minds could care less...)
To: Tolik
One can only wonder that if the social worker earning $90 is no longer alive and well, can she draw the salary?
37 posted on
07/14/2009 5:18:04 AM PDT by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . The boy's war in Detriot has already cost more then the war in Iraq.)
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